Daily Practice · GCSE
January 1963 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1963Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 2nd January 1963In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 3rd January 1963Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 4th January 1963Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 5th January 1963Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 6th January 1963What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 7th January 1963Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 8th January 1963Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 9th January 1963Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 10th January 1963How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 11th January 1963Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 12th January 1963Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 13th January 1963How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 14th January 1963Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 15th January 1963Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 16th January 1963Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 17th January 1963Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 18th January 1963What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 19th January 1963Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 20th January 1963Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 21st January 1963Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 22nd January 1963Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 23rd January 1963Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 24th January 1963Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 25th January 1963Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 26th January 1963How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 27th January 1963True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 28th January 1963Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 29th January 1963What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 30th January 1963Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 31st January 1963Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'